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Sea Drift
Composed by Frederick Delius
Performed by Waynflete Singers, Southern Voices, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
with Bryn Terfel
Conducted by Richard Hickox
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Songs of Sunset
Composed by Frederick Delius
Performed by Waynflete Singers, Southern Voices, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
with Sally Burgess, Bryn Terfel
Conducted by Richard Hickox
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Songs of Farewell
Composed by Frederick Delius
Performed by Waynflete Singers, Southern Voices, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Richard Hickox
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When this all-Delius disc was first released in 1993 as part of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra's centenary celebrations, it took a Gramophone Award and for reasons that should be obvious even to listeners with no natural sympathy toward Delius. Sea Drift is the masterpiece of its composer but lives up (or rather down) to its title all too literally, with a loose ebb and flow of musical invention that barely satisfies the ear's demand for a defined shape. Like the Songs of Sunset and the later Songs of Farewell, it's awash with melancholic musing on the transience of life and certainty of death; and its salvation in performance is a sense of sustained forward movement without which the whole thing falls apart, as it often does. But not here, in the hands of a conductor who feeds constant, measured energy into the slow and sometimes dangerously somnolent progress of the writing. This is Richard Hickox in his element and at his best: entirely sympathetic to the idiom but with an equally clear sense of the disciplinary action required to make it work. With stunning solo contributions from a radiantly young Bryn Terfel and (in Songs of Sunset) Sally Burgess, this is the finest recording of the repertory. --Michael White
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